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9 The Adventure Of The Beauty Queen
Exploring Tomorrow · June 25, 1958 · 19 min · 2,307 words
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The program you are about to hear is largely fiction, science fiction. We make no guarantees, however, how long it will remain, fiction. Exploring tomorrow! And now here's your guide to these adventures of the mind, John Campbell Jr.
The philosophers down the ages have hasled a long time and with many words about the good, the true, and the beautiful. The true, well that can be defined pretty objectively. But there's a peculiar thing about beautiful.
What is beauty? And in whose terms makes it difficult. With the story of the adventure of the beauty queen, which stars Miss Charlotte Sheffield. Miss United States of 1958. Beauty is a much more complicated problem than the question of truth actually. A truth is an eternal thing. If it's true, it's true and that's that.
But beauty, beauty is appropriate. It changes as the situations change. It changes with time. I wonder how our own concepts of beauty, that is our human race's concepts of beauty, will change as time goes by.
by. Let's suppose that a famous young woman of our time, misunited states if you like, is awakened in her sleep by an alien presence. A strange force she feels but cannot see. It's something she knows is there. Yes. In conscious I am with you.
Two news of course. Who are you? A man who in your terms belongs to the distant future. Do have been dared over a thousand. Someone's playing a joke. No. I mean no harm. It did a thousand years.
Whatever you are, what are you talking about? Listen to me, try to understand. I belong to a race of scientists. In simple words you can understand, we have a device which enables us to project ourselves into the past.
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